Thailand Delays Results of First Post-Coup Poll: Election Update

A voting booth stands at a polling station in Bangkok on March 24.

Photographer: Nicolas Axelrod/Bloomberg
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Thailand unexpectedly delayed by a day the results of Sunday’s general election, the first since a coup almost five years ago. Parties backing the military and royalist establishment are dueling for power with the populist movement of exiled former premier Thaksin Shinawatra.

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